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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] some thoughts about php 6
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

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On 1/30/14, 2:26 AM, Arvids Godjuks wrote:
> So, I say you go with the 64 bit improvements for 5.6, set all the thin=
gs
> in motion, do the porting docs and make a hell lot of noise about this.=
 I'm
> willing to help with the information campaign, because this lack of pro=
per
> 64 bit support has gave me a few "WTF?!" situations when I had to figur=
e
> out why things do not work and realize it's due to the 64 vs 32 bit iss=
ues.

You make it sound like 64-bit vs. 32-bit issues will go away with this
patch. If you are writing portable code that should run the same
everywhere you still have to worry about it. This change does not
suddenly give you 64-bit integers on a 32-bit platform. The main thing
this does is it makes 64-bit Windows no longer look like a 32-bit
platform. Other true 32-bit platforms remain 32-bit. It also makes it
possible to have >2g strings on 64-bit platforms, but this is hopefully
a rather rare requirement. Imagine running that code on a server with
MaxClients set to 50...

I am all for this change, but I still think it is too big of an API
break for a point release.

-Rasmus


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